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#33
Here is my free self-expression:

Nokia delivered to me what they promised - a non-consumer device, which is rough around the edges and the 4th step out of 5 to a consumer device.

I'm unhappy about some parts of Maemo 5, because I think Nokia could have completed the process before release (e.g. long presses, no status bar in multitask or app view) and I don't see it as a big effort, just negligence.

I'm extremely happy about the N900 as this is my first smartphone I'm satisfied with. I am a smartphone user since 2005 (Nokia N90) - went through iPhone 3G, Android 1.5, several Symbian versions.

I think Nokia has messed up by not thinking about the Maemo-line and not taking care of the clear change plan, the upgrade path from Maemo 5 to MeeGo.

I did not expect so many applications already and I wet my pants, when I heard that Qt 4.6 is coming much earlier then I was expecting (Maemo 6).
Providing application compatibility between Maemo 5, Maemo 6/MeeGo.

I also expected that GTK will be officially dropped and I'll lose most of my fav apps w Maemo 6. Instead, GTK is part of MeeGo for compatibility. Very happy!

I blame Nokia for not being able to explain the Qt/GTK news properly and not making the biggest marketing out of this for current N900 users.

I wish Nokia would simply put MeeGo on N900 and cough up the expenses for maintaining a non-multitouch, resistive screen version until end of 2011. I blame Nokia for not answering this question already on Monday.

I am unhappy about Ovi Maps on N900, this is pure ******** (awaiting banhammer). However, if the April rumour comes through I will forgive Nokia due to giving me free voice navi.

I wish Nokia would now settle for MeeGo, so I could benefit from an ecosystem of not half-million devices (guessing?), but millions.

Nokia made me so happy w the MeeGo decision, that I'm spending my freetime (which I don't have) with learning Qt (I'm not a developer), adding wiki pages to MeeGo site and trying to explain to people, why MeeGo is the best thing for us N900 owners.
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Last edited by RenegadeFanboy; 2010-02-20 at 09:38. Reason: bad punctuation, worse English :)